missed uni exams due to very bad viral infection, now I'm scared about the outcome

Say that you were vomiting as well. Is there anyway you can get that added on to your doctros note?

anyone?

You'll be fine. At my uni (university of Birmingham) as long as you have mitigating circumstances with a doctor's note you're fine. Our regulations does say colds don't count but if you have a note it was clearly more than a simple common cold. So you should be able to sit your exams later on. If I was you email your department and tell them of your concerns again. Meanwhile keep revising x

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Ive missed an exam at uni before as well,they give you the oppurtunity to resit it anyway as a second attempt in the resit period and if your extenuating circumstances are accepted then it will count as attempt number 1 and not be capped,worst case scenario they dont accept your extenuating and you have attempt number two in the resit period which is like 4-5 weeks after the first set of exams. Also for future reference whenever you ask for advice do it via email so its documented.

I've never heard of unis allowing students to miss exams (or to resit them!!!), but if your tutor said it was fine, and as you say she chairs the examinations committee, then if they refuse surely you can just send them a copy of her email that advises you not to take the exams? And with a doctors note supporting your case, i don't think they can really argue against that.

If your uni offers resit exams then I guess they would make you sit the exams then (or maybe next year? Surely they wouldn't make you repeat a year...) - I really would try not to stress about this until you have heard the outcome from the examinations committee

I've never heard of unis allowing students to miss exams (or to resit them!!!), but if your tutor said it was fine, and as you say she chairs the examinations committee, then if they refuse surely you can just send them a copy of her email that advises you not to take the exams? And with a doctors note supporting your case, i don't think they can really argue against that.

If your uni offers resit exams then I guess they would make you sit the exams then (or maybe next year? Surely they wouldn't make you repeat a year...) - I really would try not to stress about this until you have heard the outcome from the examinations committee

Yeah I've got a doctors note, I've been ill for over a week and it's a very bad cold. Are you sure they won't be able to refuse? Yeah but the thing is the way I learn is that when I'm memorising I repeat things over and over again but my throat was aching so much so I couldn't do this and also pharmacy is a very demanding degree to my headache really affected how much I was able to concentrate. And you're right I guess, I would've just sat the exams, I only emailed my head of department for advice on how to study with a cold but she told me not to sit the exams.

Okay firstly- wanting to kill your self because you missed your exams? Bit of an over reaction. Secondly, let's be realistic, you missed your exams because of a cold. You'll be pretty lucky to resist your exams as a first attempt with that excuse but you'll most probably get a resist (second attempt)

And I'd advise against handing in more than one doctors note- it won't go in your favor. In fact, it'll probably go against you. These people aren't stupid- more than one sick note is going to look suspicious to even the least intelligent of people.

Perhaps rather than jumping straight to the gun next time you receive an email telling you not to attend 'IF' you aren't well enough you should simply suck it up. I've personally revised and attended exams in far worse medical states and have managed to pass with A's+B's.

This might seem a bit harsh but saying you'll kill yourself if your school doesn't accept your cold as an excuse? It really is an insult to those families who have lost loved ones to mental illness and suicide.


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Okay firstly- wanting to kill your self because you missed your exams? Bit of an over reaction. Secondly, let's be realistic, you missed your exams because of a cold. You'll be pretty lucky to resist your exams as a first attempt with that excuse but you'll most probably get a resist (second attempt)

And I'd advise against handing in more than one doctors note- it won't go in your favor. In fact, it'll probably go against you. These people aren't stupid- more than one sick note is going to look suspicious to even the least intelligent of people.

Perhaps rather than jumping straight to the gun next time you receive an email telling you not to attend 'IF' you aren't well enough you should simply suck it up. I've personally revised and attended exams in far worse medical states and have managed to pass with A's+B's.

This might seem a bit harsh but saying you'll kill yourself if your school doesn't accept your cold as an excuse? It really is an insult to those families who have lost loved ones to mental illness and suicide.


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Even with your head of department saying you didn't have to do the exams if you weren't well enough, you should have did the exams and filled in an extenuating circumstances form to say your revision was affected along with the doctors note.

Just hope they let you do the exam as your first time rather than a resit and capping your grade.

Yeah you're right, in my uni we only have 2 attempts at an exam so I thought why waste one attempt. But it was stupid of me

In my uni you need to get 25% across all 4 exams to be allowed a resit, if my extenuating circumstances don't get accepted I will get an automatic zero so I may not be able to resit even

Ooh that isn't good! Is there anyone you could contact to get a definite answer on it to put your mind at rest?

anyone else? I'm panicking!!

Nobody here can tell you what's going to happen. If you've taken advice from as many people as possible at your uni, then you just have to wait for the decision.

I was thinking maybe some other people may have been in a similar position or heard of something similar. I just want to put my mind at rest.